US Patent Issued to PURE STORAGE on March 24 for "Intelligent upgrade process in a distributed system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,385, issued on March 24, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Intelligent upgrade process in a distributed system" was invented by Brian Gold (Los Altos, Calif.), John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.) and Robert Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for updates in a storage system is provided. The method includes writing identifiers, associated with data to be stored, to storage units of the storage system and writing trim records indicative of identifiers that are allowed to not exist in the storage system to the storage units. The method includes determining whether stored data corresp...